Tornillo Kiddie Immigration Camp Expansion

The federal government is expanding the camp in Tornillo by a significant amount. 

And frankly, its our own fault. 

We, as a community, haven't made it hostile enough of an environment for the Trump led-federal government.

We say that we oppose legislation like SB4.

But its okay for Ice Detainers to be happening in our local jail. 

We say that we oppose local law enforcement enforcing immigration law.

But we are totally okay with the federal government paying us a ton of money to house the undocumented immigrants we say we don't want local law enforcement arresting. 

Stop raging about the Tornillo detention camp and your little bus tours with celebrities and ridiculous cries to abolish ICE if you aren't willing to march your ass to commissioner's court and tell them to end the contract with the feds to house undocumented immigrants. 

Wanna see just how embarrassing our bipolar view of immigration really is?

The Mayor of Atlanta recently called for the federal government to get detained undocumented immigrants out of her city jails. Click here to read the story. 

Her quote in the article is something you'd expect to hear from leaders from El Paso - a border community - not someone from the South. 

"As we work to achieve our vision of an Atlanta that is welcoming and inclusive, with equal opportunity for all, it is untenable for our city to be complicit in the inhumane immigration policies that have led to the separation of hundreds of families at the United States southern border," Bottoms said.

Seriously, El Paso used to be known for being ahead of the times on civil rights issues. We were the first major city to desegregate. Now we are less evolved on a civil rights issue than the SOUTH!

It is untenable for our city to be complicit in the inhumane immigration policies that have led to the separation of hundreds of families...

What is our stance as a community regarding the detention of undocumented immigrants?

Show me the money!

There isn't a community in the entire country that gets more money from the feds to detain undocumented immigrants than El Paso. No wonder they are so quick to expand the camp in Tornillo!

Other than Commission Vince Perez, were the hell are the principled voices that have the courage to stand up and call this for what it is?

Why does it take a mayor from Georgia to say what leaders in the Border Community should be saying?

This shit is the second-largest source of revenue for the County. 

The ONLY argument that people make about it, is that the sheriff's union will lose jobs. 

We want those kinds of jobs in this community? Are we that willing to sell out our principles?

Fellow liberals, I'm looking at you. The sheriff's union endorses Republicans. They are endorsing a Republican for congress. Those are the jobs you want to protect?

There's no equivalent of the Border Network for Human Rights in Georgia saying that its actually a good idea to keep undocumented immigrants in the Georgia jails so that the inmates can be closer to their relatives. 

There's no one crying about the jobs. 

Its an embarrassment that a community hundreds of miles from the border is more willing to take a stance than those of us that live on the border.